Austin Esterbrooks
8:38 - 9:34
"in 2025, for example, we had a discard— or sorry, a groundfish bycatch ratio of less than 1%. And so this gives you sort of a benchmark of how the fleet performed historically. That longer-term groundfish discard ratio was— is 1.7%. So 2025 was relative to the historical period cleaner on average."
“in 2025, for example, we had a discard— or sorry, a groundfish bycatch ratio of less than 1%. And so this gives you sort of a benchmark of how the fleet performed historically. That longer-term groundfish discard ratio was— is 1.7%. So 2025 was relative to the historical period cleaner on average.”
- Speaker
- Austin Esterbrooks
- Timestamp
- 8:38 – 9:34
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
Within the report, we track groundfish discard ratios, and so this slide highlights the longer-term In 2025, for example, we had a discard— or sorry, a groundfish bycatch ratio of less than 1%. And so this gives you sort of a benchmark of how the fleet performed historically. That longer-term groundfish discard ratio was— is 1.7%. So 2025 was relative to the historical period cleaner on average. And then again, these numbers just present the PSC in addition to the, the groundfish and pollock catch for the PCC.
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